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Erol, Ezgi. "Urban Transportation: Sections At Minus". Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611695/index.pdf.
Texto completos multimodal and multilayered urban transportation hubs.
Houston, Elizabeth Ann. "Preservation issues in project-based Section 8 contract expirations". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67414.
Texto completoMcAninch, Scott F. "City section Vauban : innovative urban planning in the heart of the Black Forest". Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1273161.
Texto completoDepartment of Urban Planning
Moga, Steven Thomas. "Bottoms, Hollows, and Flats : making and remaking the lower section of the American city". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62137.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-331).
This dissertation is an urban environmental history of the low-lying American slum. Using qualitative research methods, I investigate the historical phenomenon of topographically based, socio-economic segregation in cities, and how urban actors first created these places then remade them. I examine six low-lying urban neighborhoods in the United States: "The Bottoms" in Columbus, Ohio; "Frog Hollow" in Hartford, Connecticut; "The Flats" in Los Angeles, California; "Black Bottom" in Nashville, Tennessee; "Swede Hollow" in St. Paul, Minnesota; and, "Foggy Bottom" in Washington, D.C. The first part of the thesis examines how land and factory owners, real estate developers, and speculators made urban lowlands into residential districts nicknamed bottoms, hollows, and flats beginning in the late nineteenth century. I argue that the deliberately incomplete implementation of urban interventions such as sewerage, water supply, and flood protection created interstitial spaces for stigmatized residence. Considered potentially threatening strangers, foreign immigrants, black migrants, and poor country whites were forced down into the lowlands, which functioned as containment zones within the internal structure of the city. The second part of the thesis details three modes of remaking the lowlands: slum clearance, zoning, and big projects. Late nineteenth century attempts to remove residents and eliminate slums encountered resistance from voters and city officials due to concerns that displaced undesirables would move into their city spaces. By the 1920s, zoning helped to ease middle and upper class fears of invasion by promulgating rules to protect neighborhoods of single-family homes. After 1937, the federal government funded resident removal and physical redevelopment through public housing, highways, and the urban renewal program, erasing the old lowland slums. The history of urban lowlands highlights the low-lying landscape as an urban nexus point, revealing an inherent conflict between urban actors over containment of the poor versus the redevelopment of stigmatized districts. Planners intervene in this conflict, and assist in the repeated remaking of desirable and undesirable city spaces. The thesis draws connections among physical planning, social inequality, natural processes, and urban space in lowlands of unique interest to scholars and practicing planners in an era of renewed interest in the environment of cities.
by Steven Thomas Moga.
Ph.D.
McDonough, Michelle K. (Michelle Katharine) 1973. "Balancing income targeting and poverty deconcentration in subsidized housing : the challenge of the Federal Section 8 Program". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68790.
Texto completoParsons, Marc Alan. "Life in the City: Housing, History and the Supermarket, an Episode in Urban Architecture". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31298.
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Dadda, Mariana Aita. "A terceira modernidade urbana e o setor terciário : como Porto Alegre (RS, Brasil) está se preparando para receber a copa do mundo de 2014". reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/102628.
Texto completoWe are currently going through a unique moment in the country's history. Besides economic stability that generates global visibility and credibility to Brazil, we are on the verge of realizing the greatest sporting event on the planet: the FIFA World Cup. The football is a sport of great impact - called national passion in Brazil - which generates great expectations about the mega event, mainly for economic question. Besides all the interests that surround this event, citizens involved in the Tertiary Section (covering commercial activities, services, tourism and entertainment) are the most optimistic ahead to achievement the same. This section of the economy, which increasingly employs more people, is changing its profile since the 70s, and the diversity of services currently offered is directly related to the changing profile of the urban cities. In this regard, several authors have been writing about the alterations in the dynamics of metropolises such as Ascher (2004) and Santos (1999), among others, in his works that highlight the growing importance of technology in everyday life, the facilities communication, information and mobility, the constant improvement of science and the consequent modification of the notion of spatial and temporal boundaries. Some works have come to signify the level of complexity that hit the Tertiary Section in the large cities of Upper Tertiary and Quaternary, the unprecedented size has been achieved in this regard today. To refer to these new urban processes, this work will use the term Third Urban Modernity, of Ascher (2004, p. 28), to this moment to have highlighted a compared to others. Focusing on studies in Porto Alegre, seeks to find evidence of this here Third Urban Modernity in the state capital. And, this being one of 12 host cities for the World Cup in Brazil, aims to verify how well the Tertiary Section of the city is preparing to serve a global public, and what is the expectation of the same on the legacy that the mega event will leave the section.
Mapuva, Jephias. "A critical analysis of the ministerial powers to appoint 'special interest' councillors in terms of Section 4 A of Zimbabwe's Urban Councils Act (2008)". Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_6088_1370947242.
Texto completoMbatsane, Pinkie Norah. "The financial accountability of school governing bodies". Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07312007-110952.
Texto completoMurphy, Dugan. "Housing Choice Vouchers in the suburbs: Finneytown and Hamilton County, Ohio". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337886018.
Texto completoDyson, Ryan A. "Spatial Distribution of Housing Choice Vouchers in a Gentrifying Neighborhood: A Study of Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1463130892.
Texto completoMuchapondwa, Varaidzo Violet. "Examining the parameters of the powers of the Minister of Local Government to issue policy directives to urban local authorities in Zimbabwe in terms of section 313 of the Urban Councils Act". University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4399.
Texto completoThis is a desktop based study which will analyse relevant books and chapters in books relating to supervision of local governments by national and other higher level governments. It will also examine legislation, journal articles, newspaper articles and press statements in the field of multi-level government. The study will examine three Ministerial directives in chapter four. Due to challenges in accessing government policies the study will assess two directives that the author has on file. The study will rely on secondary sources such as newspaper articles for the third directive.
THOMAS, MONICA ELISE. "BARRIERS AFFECTING SUCCESS IN LOCATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHIN THE CINCINNATI METROPOLITAN REGION: A CASE STUDY OF CINCINNATI METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY'S (DMHA) SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1022871725.
Texto completoStahlke, Andrew J. "Housing Choice Vouchers and the suburbs: A study of the City of Forest Park (and vicinity) and Hamilton County, Ohio". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337714766.
Texto completoBaggett, Kimberley Anne. "Assessment of Section 404 Wetland Mitigation Compliance and No-Net-Loss in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District". VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/844.
Texto completoMachingauta, Naison. "A legal analysis of the appointment of caretakers to act as council in terms of Zimbabwe's section 80 of the Urban councils Act". Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2565.
Texto completoThe monitoring and supervision of local government is usually done by central governments. However in some countries like South Africa where there three spheres of government the provincial executive is charged with the supervision of the local sphere of government. In Zimbabwe the monitoring and supervision of local government is done by the central government through the relevant Minister. This study will look at the appointment of a caretaker to act as council in terms of section 80 of the UCA. Although a similar provision exists in section 158 of the RDCA, it is section 80 that has been vigorously applied by the Minister in recent times and which has caused an outcry from urban local authorities.
South Africa
TRISAL, SHILPA. "POLICY AND PRACTICE OF WETLANDS MITIGATION FOR AIRPORTS". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1022860785.
Texto completoBray, Catherine L. "The Small Area Fair Market Rent System in the Richmond Region: An Evaluation of Current Voucher Concentration, Move to Opportunity Counseling, and Value Capture Planning". VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4283.
Texto completoBjörklund, Sanne. "Preschool outdoor environment i the urban context/Förskolans utemiljö i den urbana kontexten". Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22898.
Texto completoThe dense city is now seen as a self-evident part of a sustainable urban development. We live in a time of urbanization, and questions about how we can create a dense city of good quality are high on the agenda. As more people live in the city the demand for public services, such as childcare, also increases in the city. In Sweden, the municipality is responsible for meeting the public with this service. The Swedish preschool which is the institution where this needs are supposed to be met, have in turn, their demands on sound pedagogical activity and a good environment for children, both indoors and outdoors.This paper is about how the preschool outdoor environment is created in the urban context. The preschool outdoor environment in the urban context is studied from the strategies created by the goals around both a dense city and a preschool with good outdoor environments. Through a qualitative analysis appears a complex picture of all the strategies that are generated at different levels in the public sector, and how these strategies relate to each other.Conclusion of the essay lands in how the strategies are influenced by NPM and how the grassroots bureaucrat chooses to use its freedom of choice. It also turns out that the strategies seem to create a discrepancy between the spheres that make up the big picture for a good preschool.
Deycard, Victoria. "Etude de la réactivité et l’efficacité de rétention des éléments traces métalliques dans les stations d'épuration de Bordeaux et leurs apports métalliques dans les eaux de la section Garonnaise de l'estuaire de la Gironde". Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0026/document.
Texto completoThis study is a part of the third axis of the « ETIAGE » project, a four year collaboration (2010-2014) between the Lyonnaise des Eaux, the Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux (CUB), AEAG, and FEDER, Aquitaine region with the University of Bordeaux, CNRS and IRSTEA. The axis 3 objectives were to document the trace metal inputs from the CUB watershed into the waters of the Garonne section of the Gironde estuary. The Gironde Estuary is one of the largest macrotidal and highly turbid estuaries in Western Europe characterized by the presence of a strong maximum turbidity zone (MTZ) with high suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentrations (>1 g.L-1 in surface water) transporting estuarine particles and potentially hazardous trace elements. This study has focused on the trace metal inputs from the two main wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) of the CUB. The objective of this research was therefore to study in detail the daily concentrations, fluxes, and dynamics of 8 EU priority contaminants Cr, Cu, Cr, Hg, Ni, Pb Zn, As, and the emerging contaminant Ag from the WWTPs in the CUB. The calculated removal rates are significant, around 80 % for the majority of metals, mainly as a result of the decantation phase. Despite this high removal efficiency, during periods of heavy rainstorms and low river discharges, the urban metal inputs via the WWTPs may still significantly increase metal concentrations and fluxes in the fluvial Gironde Estuary impacting water quality. In addition, the WWTP fluxes and concentrations of Ag exceeded common background concentrations in the Gironde fluvial estuary, making it an interesting urban tracer. The treatment within the WWTPs concentrates the trace metals in the sludge, yet, metal concentrations remained below legal norms for agricultural use. However, the analysis of WWTP sludge revealed that trace element concentrations are 15 (Ag) and 30 (Cu) times higher than natural background concentrations with high enrichment of Hg, Ag, Cr, Cu and Zn with over 70 % of Cd, Ag, Pb, Cu, and Zn being potentially bioavailable. Therefore, with increasing urban pressure on environmental quality, these results support the need for the development of efficient water quality monitoring tools
Carrasco, Ulloa Tomás Alejandro. "Integración urbana y social en Recoleta : sector entrecerros". Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/112671.
Texto completoA partir del desarrollo de un marco teórico entorno al desarrollo urbano de las áreas pericentrales de Santiago, se indaga sobre su posible carácter exclusionario, en la medida que reproduce patrones de segregación residencial socioeconómica de la ciudad. Se toma el caso de Recoleta, donde la presencia del Cerro Blanco y San Cristóbal actúan tanto como umbral urbano como un límite que acentúa las diferencias entre el área central y periférica de la comuna respecto al sistema urbano mayor. Finalmente la reflexión decanta sobre cómo desarrollar un proyecto de integración urbana y social en el sector denominado entrecerros, considerando varios aspectos como su ubicación estratégica dentro de la comuna, un contexto de importante transformación urbana por el mercado inmobiliario, y la presencia de dos cerros importantes.
Das, Veechibala. "The urban informal sector : an alternative analysis". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27062.
Texto completoApplied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Graduate
Ngwabi, S. S. F. "Urban regeneration and private sector investment : exploring private sector perception of urban regeneration initiatives in the Johannesburg inner city". Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04072009-223007.
Texto completoNAKAMURA, Takeho. "Urban-Specific Technological Progress in a Harris-Todaro Model with an Oligopolistic Urban Sector". 名古屋大学大学院経済学研究科, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/13855.
Texto completoBerry, James Norman. "Private sector housing, urban regeneration and property investment". Thesis, University of Ulster, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338197.
Texto completoSohail, Muhammad. "An investigation into the procurement of urban infrastructure in developing countries". Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7523.
Texto completoGe, Wenjun S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Social congestion in Shanghai : an urban housing project designed on its sections". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45961.
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The new housing developments of Shanghai rely on high-rise building, demolishing the prevailing low-rise high-density housing, known as Lilong housing, built in the early 20th century, and known as Lilong housing. The high-rise building, a symbol of modern living providing open view, better sanitation facilities, and higher building density, is usually considered to be a positive architectural revolution. The Lilong housing, despite its tranquil appearance sustained over a century, also experienced a revolution, caused by densification resulting from population explosion and poor maintenance of the buildings. Living in extremely tight space, often less than 6 square meters per person, Lilong residents had to find flexible ways of living by modifying and using space in creative ways. The residents built subtle social connections through the intense contacts of their shared lives. People who have moved from Lilong to high-rise when asked to compare their changed lifestyle, usually appreciate the good privacy, generous space, and full facilities in high-rise housing. However, most of them also dislike being isolated and lament their loss of the "big warm family" of old Lilong (Hammond, 2006, p.41). Believing that a good design should bring people together I am searching for an alternative way to develop hyper-dense urban housing to support communal culture while also actively responding to various modern trends.
by Wenjun Ge.
S.M.
Gonçalves, Armindo. "The informal sector in Cuernavaca". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66770.
Texto completoIndraswari, Indraswari y indrayayan@yahoo com. "Women and Warung in an Urban Kampung". The Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Department of Anthropology, 2006. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20091022.173123.
Texto completoNg, Philip C. T. (Philip Chee Tat). "The need for private sector-public sector collaborative planning in Singapore". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78811.
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Bibliography: leaves 114-116.
by Philip C. T. Ng.
M.S.
M.C.P.
Abiwu, Napoleon. "Private sector involvement in urban water supply management, Ghana". Thesis, Cranfield University, 2013. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9882.
Texto completoSouza, Marcos Barcellos de 1980. "Capitalismo e clandestinidade : os subcircuitos ilegais da economia urbana metropolitana". [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285800.
Texto completoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia
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Resumo: Esta dissertação pretende mapear, contextualizar e explicar as principais manifestações e relações decorrentes da ilegalidade presentes numa economia urbana metropolitana. Assim, partindo da análise da necessidade destas práticas para o modo de produção capitalista, busca-se discutir a importância do ilícito na compreensão do fênomeno urbano contemporâneo. Neste sentido, enfatizamos o caráter da acumulação primitiva e sua reposição constante, principalmente nas órbitas não-industriais do capitalismo associado. Também é abordado o papel do Estado na reprodução da ilegalidade, seja através da proteção ao capital mercantil, ou atuando no sentido de potencializar a acumulação capitalista urbana, agravando as desigualdades nas metrópoles. Dessa forma, são estudadas as relações entre informalidade e ilegalidade nas práticas de sobrevivência dos pobres, ¿marginalizados¿ e não-proprietários e na configuração de um mercado imobiliário específico. Por fim, buscou-se integrar estas relações ilegais com as novas questões envolvendo o ilícito, sobretudo os efeitos do tráfico de drogas e do aumento do comércio ilícito na esteira das reformas econômicas liberais dos anos 90
Abstract: This thesis aims to map, context and explain the major events and relationships arising from the illegality present in a metropolitan urban economy. Thus, based on the analysis of the need for these practices to the capitalist mode of production, is seeking to discuss the importance of the illicit understanding to the urban contemporary phenomenon. Therefore, we emphasize the character of the primitive accumulation and it's constant re-position, particularly in non-industrial orbits of associated capitalism. It is also discussed the role of the state in the reproduction of the illegality, either through protection to the merchant capital, or working to improve the urban capitalist accumulation, exacerbating inequalities in the cities. Thus, it is studied the relationship between informality and illegal practices of survival of the poor, "marginalized" and non-owners and the configuration of a specific real state market for the poor. Finally, we tried to integrate these relations with the new issues involving the illicit, especially the effects of drug trafficking and the increase in the illegal trade in the wake of the liberal economic reforms of the 90s
Mestrado
Economia Regional e Urbana
Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico
Mochache, Jason M. H. "Urban informal sector activities in Nairobi : a study towards urban planning policy and methodology in Kenya". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334182.
Texto completoAcres, Colleen Greer. "Spatial clustering of sector linked industry in an urban economy". PDXScholar, 1985. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/356.
Texto completoXu, Jingsi M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Energy intensity in China's iron and steel sector". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67246.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108).
In this study, I examine the spatial and economic factors that influence energy intensity in China's iron and steel sector, namely industrial value added, renovation investment, coke consumption, and local coke supply. Despite the recognition of the importance of these spatial and economic factors in understanding energy intensity in the steel industry, the municipal and provincial governments of China have failed to integrate them into their energy policy making. Therefore, in order to seek the most effective ways of reducing energy intensity and to encourage energy conservation behavior in China's iron and steel sector, I make three simulations based on the (1) shifts in direct energy efficiency in the sector, (2) coke consumption during the iron and steel making processes, and (3) manufacturing material transportation. I propose an analytical framework for examining the differences in energy intensity at the regional level that are attributed to these spatial and economic factors. More specifically, among these four key factors presented in the multi-level regression models, I identify three factors-industrial value added, renovation investment, and coke consumption indices- as "spatial-level" or "time-variant" factors. I treat the fourth one-local coke supply-as the only "temporal-level" or "time-invariant" factor. I present three major implications for the energy policy-making regarding the development of a "green" iron and steel sector in China. First, when I incorporate all four key factors-industrial value added, renovation investment, coke consumption, and local coke supply-I obtain significantly improved overall exploratory power of the regional-level energy intensity model. Second, the results of my national-level input-output analysis show that policy makers should focus on the changes in total energy intensity, which includes both direct (40 percent) and indirect (60 percent) energy intensity, to design, implement, and evaluate energy-efficient policies for China's iron and steel sector. Third, my study sheds light on the most recent national-level development plan the "1 2 th Five-Year' Plan-and I argue that by adopting efficient industrial structure upgrading strategies, the iron and steel sector can dramatically reduce the national energy consumption in China in the near future.
by Jingsi Xu.
M.C.P.
Higbee, Melissa (Melissa Aura). "Climate change adaptation in the U.S. electric utility sector". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81632.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-101).
The electric utility sector has been a focus of policy efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but even if these efforts are successful, the sector will need to adapt to the impacts of climate change. These are likely to include increased heat waves, drought, extreme precipitation events, and sea level rise. Electric utilities play a key role in providing electricity services in cities that will be facing all of these difficulties. Cities depend on electricity service for public health, safety and economic development. This thesis examines how electric utilities in the United States are approaching climate change adaptation and the factors enabling and constraining these efforts. The thesis draws on an analysis of electric utility responses to surveys distributed by the Carbon Disclosure Project as well as case studies of Consolidated Edison, Entergy, and Pacific Gas & Electric. The case study utilities are incorporating climate change projections into their risk management and capital planning activities. Integrating climate change projections into risk management efforts helps utilities use replacement opportunities to build greater resilience into infrastructure systems and ensure that adaptation strategies take competing demands on resources into account. Both approaches to adaptation are generally recommended by adaptation experts. However, existing internal decisionmaking may not be well suited for incorporating the uncertainties of climate change impacts. The case study utilities could be using Scenario Planning to develop strategies likely to be effective given a range of possible futures, but they are not. I argue that state utility regulatory commissions should consider taking a more active role in providing guidance and oversight to utilities regarding climate change adaptation. They should consider (1) requiring utilities to submit climate change vulnerability assessments and detailed adaptation plans; (2) incorporating climate change risk and adaptation considerations into existing electricity plans; and (3) convening joint climate change planning efforts with utilities, municipal governments, and a range of other stakeholders. Cities and states that would like to see electric utilities put more emphasis on climate change adaptation should consider sharing climate change projections and forecasts of potential climate change impacts. Provision of such information has been effective in encouraging adaptation planning in the case studies. The actual adaptation strategies that utilities have adopted depend largely on the risks they face and the regulatory and policy environment in which they find themselves.
by Melissa Higbee.
M.C.P.
Hudson, Ben H. (Ben Hugh) 1974. "Private sector provision of Internet access in rural India". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67548.
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In South India today, a number of ongoing projects seek to provide internet access to rural areas by combining computer, internet, and other telecommunications technologies in a profitable business model. Yet, in spite of growing interest in this work, few formal evaluations have been performed on specific projects and little progress has been made toward increasing discussion of the strengths and weakness of each. Though public, private, and non-profit funds have been in a number of different ways to stimulate rural projects of this sort, evaluations to date have tended to focus on efforts led by public and non-profit organizations. Little attention has been paid to the results of private sector investment. This analysis fills a portion of the existing information gap, examining the efforts of a major sugar cane processing plant in rural South India to provide internet access to villagers. The sugar cane plant's project is evaluated on viability of infrastructure; financial sustainability; and success in meeting the company's own social objectives. In the final analysis, the company seems poised to succeed in creating a functioning, profitable network of rural internet kiosks, however, its success at providing broad access to a diverse segment of communities is limited. Two important findings emerge from this study. First, though access to computers and the internet is still limited in absolute numbers, computer aware individuals and computer users are a demographically diverse group of individuals. An intense survey of rural households demonstrates that users of computers and the internet come from a broad range of backgrounds. Though only one-quarter of rural villagers in surveyed areas were computer aware and an even smaller seven percent actually use computers, the body of actual users was demographically diverse across variables such as gender, wealth, education, and age. Second, the private sector, while seemingly able to construct a viable infrastructure for providing computer and internet access in rural areas, only serves a limited range of individuals. The project examined here was used by only one-quarter of computer users in the local area, or less than 2% of village members in August 2001. Furthermore, while users in the region surveyed were, in general, from a broad range of backgrounds, usage at the rural private sector kiosks was decidedly unequal, serving mainly wealthy male farmers from higher castes. Potential does, however, exist for the expansion of the company's internet kiosk network in a way that will significantly broaden access, reducing the digital divide seen in this private sector initiative. The analysis therefore concludes with three recommendations for improving the project at the village (operator) level and three recommendations at the company (policy) level. At the village level, awareness and skill levels must be increased; information needs and existing use must be studied to facilitate content generation; and the kiosk model must be restructured to facilitate broader access. At the company level, a solid commitment should be made to explicit social objectives; an incentive program should be developed to encourage operators to reach out to a broader range of villagers; and strategic partnerships should be developed to increase demand and available content.
by Ben H. Hudson.
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Juliano, Marcelo Alexandre. "O zoneamento e o território do terciário na cidade de Campinas". Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16139/tde-20122016-160033/.
Texto completoFourteen years after the enactment of the City Statute, with all its instruments Intervention in the territory, zoning still remains the main Planning tool for our cities. It is the main focus of disputes Between the various actors and their interests, who act in the production of the urban space. In Brazil, this instrument was influenced by the US \"zoning\" Which, basically acting in the protection and valuation of the singular housing model, Segregates the other uses, which would supposedly be incompatible with the dwelling. With economic changes starting in the 1970s, the tertiary sector Position in the economy of large centers, in the wake of the new New forms of consumption, which together With the facilities of transportation and communication, promote other dynamics in the Use of urban space and other locational manifestations. These dynamics, Of the insertion of the tertiary sector in the urban fabric, collide with an ordering model Territory inspired by the premises of the modernist functional urbanism of the IV CIAM, explained in the Charter of Athens, and in the \"zoning\" of the United States. To the same Time we inherited this planning culture, focused on zoning, never We had the institutional capacity (and also the political will) to ensure Effective application. This model will find in a patrimonialist society (Accustomed to the culture of the way, the privilege and the traffic of influence), a bias Different from the American, much more subject to the interests of the holders of power Groups with the economic capacity and political force to negotiate for the Of their specific interests. Despite this restrictive rule, the tertiary sector Represents an increasing share, in the generation of wealth and jobs in the big cities. It seeks out locational opportunities, according to Availability and feasibility for each activity. And, where legislation demonstrates With the urban dynamic, the tertiary sector will establish itself, with its Agents seeking (politically, when possible) the adjustments in this legislation, Or simply by ignoring it. The present work, using the example Of the city of Campinas / SP, seeks to demonstrate the inadequacy of the zoning model Restrictive, as the main tool for spatial planning, in particular Regarding the spatial distribution of activities in the tertiary sector.
Steen-Johnsen, Tale. "Valuable relations? social capital in the urban informal fisheries sector, Kenya /". Connect to this title online, 2001. http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/sum/2001/35231/dt2001.04.steenjohnsen.pdf.
Texto completoPan, Xi. "THE LABOR MARKET, POLITICAL CAPITAL, AND OWNERSHIP SECTOR IN URBAN CHINA". UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/788.
Texto completoValler, David Charles. "Private sector involvement in local economic strategy". Thesis, Cardiff University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360302.
Texto completoLaudiero, Angelo. "Art-based third sector organizations and urban regeneration in depressed neighbourhoods: the case of Naples, Italy". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/256289.
Texto completoHiebert, Karis (Karis Lynn). "The private formal sector in Bangkok : by Karis L. Hiebert". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67273.
Texto completoOfori, Benjamin O. "The Urban Street Commons Problem: Spatial Regulation in the Urban Informal Economy". Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1180940316.
Texto completoMerridew, Tanya Suzanne. "Third sector politics in the new local governance". Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10227/.
Texto completoLapah, Yota Cyprian. "Migratory trajectories among street vendors in urban South Africa". Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2745_1362391294.
Texto completoThis study investigates ways in which migratory trajectories relate to the gradual insertion and eventual integration of immigrants. It therefore shows the contribution of social capital in the migration and insertion into the entrepreneurial city of the host country. The focus of the study is on immigrants of African origin. It is hypothesized that immigrants of different nationalities in South Africa use 
particular assets to engage in street vending as a way of insertion into their new environment. Data were obtained through a survey of two hundred and eight (208) respondents conveniently 
selected. The survey was carried out in five suburbs of Cape Town and as well as at some major road junctions where these vendors are found. The Statistical package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyse the data. The results showed that nationality was an important determinant of the migratory trajectories of immigrant vendors. Migration has been on the increase with the 
improvement in technology and globalization. In the same light, migration into South African cities mainly from the rest of Africa and Asia took an upward trend especially after the fall of Apartheid 
Regime and the advent of democracy in the nineties. Street vendors form part of these immigrants in South Africa. Many of them especially from other African countries find it a suitable means of 
survival. Faced with the difficulty of getting jobs in South Africa, immigrants resort to informal trading as a starting point for survival. They may change to other activities depending on certain variables like duration of stay, level of education, age, sex, marital status, social capital and networks. Coming from different socioeconomic, cultural and political backgrounds, these immigrants 
resort to different ways of migrating and forms of adaptation aimed at sustaining their livelihood in their new environments. Most studies in the field of migration and entrepreneurship focus on 
remittances by the migrants as well as their impact on both their place of departure and on the place of destination. Little attention is paid to the way they migrate and how they insert themselves in the entrepreneurial city.
 
Oppenheim, Thomas Kurt. "A public sector financial dream--New York's Battery Park City development". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69528.
Texto completoConnolly, Sarah E. 1977. "Unexpected victories : protecting workers' rights in Guatemala's apparel-for-export sector". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28801.
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This thesis examines three surprise victories for workers' rights in the Guatemalan garment sector. In the past three years, three unions have formed at the Choishin, Cimatextiles, and Nobland factories and each has negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This thesis explores why these victories were possible given the general context of globalization and the economic and institutional context of Guatemala. I have proposed a model that describes the dynamic approach that allowed the unions to form and negotiate the only collective bargaining agreements in Guatemala's apparel-for-export sector. These unions were successful because cross-border union organizing, corporate codes of conduct, independent monitoring, and government enforcement were dynamically combined. This thesis also demonstrates how the new synthesized model accounts for differences across the three cases. These cases provide a series of Lessons for protecting workers' rights. But the most salient lesson from Guatemala is that, under certain conditions, victory for Labor rights is possible; it is possible to maintain garment sector employment while increasing respect for workers' rights. And if this sort of victory is possible in Guatemala, then it seems possible anywhere.
by Sarah E. Connolly.
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Núñez-Ollero, Cynthia A. "Innovations in housing finance--private sector funds for low income housing". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69281.
Texto completoDiaz, Ruiz Claudia E. (Claudia Esperanza). "Formal informal sector responses for housing low-income people in Colombia". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65696.
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